TPP FACT SHEET | 1 JUL. 24

TRIANGULAR PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME
Fact SheetBACKGROUND
As a direct outcome of the 2014 Leaders’ Summit on UN
Peacekeeping, the Triangular Partnership Project was launched in2015 to conduct peacekeeping engineering training in East Africa foruniformed peacekeepers. The Project has since expanded into a fullfledged Programme, the Triangular Partnership Programme (TPP),
with four distinct projects. Three are training projects on engineering,
medical, and C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications,
Computers (C4), Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance(ISR)) and camp security technologies, and one is the Telemedicine
Project to improve access to medical care in peacekeeping missions.
As of 2024, the Programme has expanded its scope beyond UN
peacekeeping, to also include engagement with the African Union(AU) Peace Support Operations (PSO).

OBJECTIVESThe TPP aims to enhance peacekeepers’ capacity in engineering, medical, and C4ISR and camp security technologies through the provisionof training and operational support. Through TPP trainings, troops are better equipped to deliver high-value support and meet priority
requirements, improving the ability of peacekeeping and peace support missions to operate more effectively on the ground. The TPP also
provides a framework for improving operational support with initiatives like telemedicine. It also contributes to the implementation of Action for
Peacekeeping (A4P) and Action for Peacekeeping Plus (A4P+).

TRAINING AND OPERATIONAL SUPPORT• Rapid Deployment: Build a pool of well-trained uniformed peacekeepers to support rapid deployment of units to peacekeeping•••••

and peace support missions.
Flexibility: Deliver training in Africa, Asia Pacific, and South America in partnership with donors and host countries.
Strengthening Long-term Capacities: Provide Training-of-Trainer (TOT) courses to strengthen regional and national
peacekeeping training capacities and ensure knowledge is retained and sustained.
Cross-pillar Needs: Ensure emerging capability needs are addressed through cross-pillar trainings, for instance, throughengineering trainings combined with the Explosive Hazard Awareness Training (EHAT) – in partnership with the United Nations
Mine Action Service (UNMAS).
New Peacekeeping Gaps: Continue to engage with stakeholders to ensure new peacekeeping capability gaps, such asenvironmental management and Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices (C-IEDs), are identified, and delivered through TPPtrainings.
Telemedicine Network: Strengthen telemedicine networks connecting various levels of medical facilities within missions aswell as provisions of remote medical support using telemedicine from external specialists in Member State hospitals (active inMINUSCA, UNMISS, UNDOF, UNSOS, UNSMIL, UNISFA; previously piloted in MINUSMA and MONUSCO).

BENEFITSTROOP CONTRIBUTING COUNTRIES (TCC)
Opportunity to receive professional training and build increased engineering, medical, and C4ISR and camp security
technologies capabilities for deployment to UN peacekeeping and AU peace support missions.

OTHER MEMBER STATESOpportunity to contribute to peacekeeping and AU peace support operations through the provision of expertise, trainers, training
facilities, equipment (*bilateral provision), funding, services, and by fostering partnerships between TCCs to establish more
effective missions, promote stability and security, advance mandate delivery and improve accountability and performance.

UNITED NATIONS
More effective peace operations with an expanded pool of well-trained and equipped military engineering units, medical staff,
C4ISR and camp security technologies personnel, and TCCs’ units. Increased capacity to respond to urgent medical needs
and specialist support from a higher level of care. Enhancement of partnerships with the AU through contributions to peace
support operations.

CROSS-CUTTING BENEFITS••••Standardisation of training in engineering, medical, and C4ISR and camp security technologies in partnership with leading
expert providers within and beyond the UN.
Support to the efficient deployment of mission facilities, camps, bases and other infrastructures in complex environments.
Potential to replicate the concept of triangular partnership to other enabling capacities.
Enhanced performance and effectiveness of uniformed peacekeepers in line with UN standard operational requirements.

SECURITY OF PEACEKEEPERS•••

Improve the provision of appropriate and timely medical care to peacekeepers in remote environments and reduce need for
unnecessary medical evacuations.
Improve access to a broader array of healthcare options within missions and establish mechanisms for more expert-to-expert
consultations (collaborative medical care) between medical facilities.
Provide medical support to locations without on-site specialists.

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ENGINEERING TRAINING••••••••Since 2015, 970 engineering
personnel from African and Asia
Pacific TCCs have been trained
both in person and throughremote courses.
Australia, Japan, the Republicof Korea (ROK), and Switzerland have provided/are providing
financial support.
Five Member States (Brazil, Japan, Morocco, the ROK, andSwitzerland) have provided trainers. Four African TCCs, namelyGhana, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda have also provided
assistant trainers to support various Heavy Equipment
Engineering (HEE) courses.
Host countries (Brazil, Cambodia, Indonesia, Kenya,Morocco, Rwanda, Uganda, and Viet Nam) have provided
facilities, equipment, course management, and/or services onsite.
The ROK has transferred equipment used for TPP trainings toother training host countries.
Six in-person courses are currently being conducted, namely
HEE Operators (Basic, Intermediate, TOT), HEE Maintenance,
Horizontal Engineering Course (HEC) and Engineering ProjectManagement (EPM).
One remote course is currently being conducted, namely theConstruction Process Management.
Trainees have already been deployed to MINUSCA, MINUSMA,MONUSCO, UNIFIL, UNISFA, UNMISS, AMISOM, and ATMIS.

MEDICAL TRAINING•••

Since 2023, 194 non-medical
uniformed peacekeepers frommissions (MONUSCO, UNISFA,UNMISS) and TCCs have been
trained in the Field MedicalAssistants Course (FMAC) at theRegional
ServiceCentreEntebbe (RSCE) in Uganda.
FMAC TOT for medical uniformed peacekeepers consists of a
Virtual Workshop and in-person teaching practice enabling TCCsto deliver FMAC. To date, 43 trainees have completed bothmodules of the FMAC TOT.
FMAC is financially supported by India, Israel, Japan, the ROK,and the UN Peace and Development Trust Fund (UNPDF).

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TELEMEDICINE•••UN C4ISR ACADEMY FOR PEACE OPERATIONS (UNCAP)
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Since 2016, 21,590 military andpolice personnel from 138
countries have undertaken
technology training in personat the RSCE, in missions andthrough online courses. Of
these, 12,330 have been
trained in-person 9,172 havebeen trained online (self-paced), and 88 participants have been
trained through Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT).
12 iterations of the Women’s Outreach Course (WOC) haveresulted in 288 trained female officers from 74 countries fromAfrica, Asia, Europe, South and North Americas. Of these, 198
are military personnel, 90 are police personnel, and 36 have been
deployed to UN field missions.
In 2021, the Academy launched the Micro-Unmanned Aerial
Systems (M-UAS) course, followed by six editions of the Remote
Pilot Course (RPC). The M-UAS TOT course was introduced at
UNCAP in 2022. To date, six M-UAS RPC and six M-UAS TOTcourses have been hosted, and the Mobile Training Teams(MTTs) have delivered M-UAS courses to missions including
MINUSCA, MONUSCO, and UNSOS, as well as other UNagencies. Through these, UNCAP has trained 106 operators(including 8 women) and 50 trainers (including 2 women) from47 countries.
Canada, Denmark, India, and Japan are contributing extrabudgetary funding to the Academy, while France, Germany,
Uganda, and NATO Communications and Information
Academy (NCIA) are contributing technical support with trainers,expertise, mentoring and logistics.

A TPP-AU Workshop was held in March 2024 to discussenhanced cooperation with the AU through the TPP.
o Financial support for training to AU PSO TCCs isprovided by Japan, Portugal and the ROK.
C-IED Trainings
o The TPP will work with UNMAS to provide C-IEDtrainings.
o A TPP C-IED Workshop was held in Kenya in October
2023 to discuss future C-IED trainings within the TPP
framework.
o In June 2024, the Explosive Hazard Awareness Training(EHAT) focusing on addressing the threats posed byIEDs was conducted in Kenya in conjunction with theHEE Operators’ Course as part of its cross-pillar trainingefforts.
o An EHAT TOT was conducted in ROK in June 2024 inpreparation for a multi-pillar training set to take place inCambodia in late 2024.
o The donor for C-IED trainings is Japan.
Environmental Management Trainings
o The UN Environmental Management in Peace
Operations Course was remotely piloted in 2021.
o The TPP is exploring further areas of work to mainstream
environmental considerations in peacekeeping andpeace support operations.
o Japan and Germany are the financial contributors for thiswork.
oTPP HIGHLIGHTS•The Telemedicine Project aims to improve access and enhance
the quality of medical care for peacekeepers by using innovative
digital technologies.
Telemedicine services comprising of various use cases are
currently operational across six
UN field operations involving 20
sites The current missions are
MINUSCA, UNMISS, UNDOF,UNSOS, UNISFA and UNSMIL;
MINUSMAandMONUSCO
benefitted from previous phasesof the project.
The Project is subdivided into three parts to: (1) connect medical
experts in higher-level medical facilities with in-mission
peacekeepers operating in remote locations and deliver real-timetelemedicine support at the point of injury and during patienttransport. This support also facilitates collaboration between
medical practitioners located at different levels of healthcare for
specialist opinion and clinical decision-making support; to (2)expand intra-mission telemedicine coverage and includes added
component of remote-medical support from outside mission(telemedicine linkage of Member State hospital); and to (3)introduce real-time telemedicine enabled surgical theatre infield setting to support frontline surgeons in remote field
locations.
•TheTelemedicine
Project was awarded the 2023
Secretary General Award for
UN 2.0- Quintet of Change
furtherhighlighting
theSecretary-General’s vision of amodern UN family, rejuvenatedby a forward-thinking culture and empowered by cutting-edge
skills for the twenty-first century – to continue to turbocharge theUN’s support to people and planet.
Australia, Israel, Japan, Portugal, the ROK, and the UNPDF
have provided/are providing financial support.

SUPPORT FOR THE PROGRAMME••

By endorsing the Declaration of Shared Commitments onUN Peacekeeping Operations, more than 150 Member
States committed to better prepare, train and equip
uniformed personnel by pursuing innovative approaches,including triangular partnerships.
To enhance the sustainability of the Programme, theUnited Nations welcomes support from Member States inthe form of funding and in-kind contributions of trainers andengineering, medical and C4ISR equipment.

CONTACT•KEY NEW FOCUS AREAS•

AU Trainings
o TPP is carrying out capacity building of TCCs not only for
UN PKO, but also for AU PSOs.

•UNITED NATIONS | DEPARTMENT OF OPERATIONAL SUPPORTProgramme team: Mr. Takakazu Ito (itot@un.org), Ms.
Amy Weesner (weesner@un.org);
Office of Information Communication and Technology(OICT)/UN C4ISR Academy for Peace Operations(UNCAP): Mr. David Brazier (brazierd@un.org), Ms.
Florence Keter (keterf@un.org).
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